Exploring questions such as ‘What is the nature of leadership?’ and ‘What is entrepreneurship?’, this book is for the next generation of leaders in business, industry and society, for whom it is important to understand the principles which help society function best.
Servant Leadership
Develop a servant leadership style that builds effective organizations and achieves outstanding results. This book details a holistic leadership approach that builds community through a common mission. It features examples, tips, practices, and questions for self-reflection.
Managing Enterprise Resource Planning Adoption and Business Processes
Recent decades have witnessed many avoidable ERP failures and malpractices concerning its adoption. The author presents an adoption methodology, called the Full Lifecycle ERP Adoption Reference (FLEAR) model, which will prevent the reoccurrence of such downfalls.
This book provides practical, evidence-based strategies to cultivate diversity and inclusion. Learn to support employees’ sense of belonging and psychological safety, address harassment and microaggressions, and implement systemic change for vibrant, productive workplaces.
Today’s profit-only management is obsolete, endangering the planet and disengaging employees. This book introduces 3D Management, a radical redesign that liberates organisations and replaces the bottom line with a model balancing profit, people, planet, and purpose.
The Mature Corporation
This book critiques concepts like CSR and traces capitalism’s malaise to the mantra of ‘shareholder value’. It provides a practical navigation chart for a new system where every stakeholder benefits, and true wealth creation and sustainability go hand-in-hand.
Managerial Intelligence
Through a comprehensive framework, this text condenses over 60 years of clinical efforts in hundreds of organizations into a set of clear, concise, understandable principles and concepts that can be applied by managers to improve their performance and that of their organizations.
Demand Articulation of Emerging Technologies
In today’s high-tech environment, how do you convert a vague set of wants into well-defined products? Through “demand articulation,” an important competency of market-driving firms. While most firms seek pre-articulated demand, this book analyzes how to create it.
This volume outlines the changing landscape of business and consumer behaviour post-pandemic. It identifies emerging trends—shaped by cultural context and generational belonging—needed to develop digital products and services for an evolving world.
Precision Agriculture and Food Production
The world faces a dilemma of food scarcity and abundance, with massive waste. A cocoa farmer in Africa earns less than $1 a day, yet rich countries have easy access to food. This book studies the food system, from corporate models to the role of science and technology.
Human Resource Management at the Crossroads
This book contains studies on the challenges of Human Resource Management. It analyzes how technology impacts the future of work, employee well-being, the management of careers and diversity, employee commitment, and other key topics facing HRM managers today.
How do affect and cognition shape managerial decisions? This book unpacks their interplay at the individual, group, and organizational levels, revealing how these powerful influences can be harnessed or mitigated.
This book illustrates how global phenomena like digitalisation and climate change impact multinationals. As extant research does not fully explain emergent topics like digital business models and cleantech companies, this volume serves to fill this critical gap.
Countdown to the Global Financial Crisis
This book traces the pattern of crises in US investment banking to a culture established at the birth of the United States. Exploring the humble beginnings of Lehman Brothers, it offers a cautionary tale of how the mighty have fallen.
Encountering Entrepreneurs
This monograph probes the daily life of businessmen in a particularly productive area of Northern Italy, Lombardy. It provides insights into their business and entrepreneurialism, offering a different approach to capitalism and reflections on human nature.
Productivity of Contemporary Economies
This book reveals original research into the productivity of economies, as the world faces a slowdown caused by digitalization and COVID-19. It will be useful for researchers, policymakers, and all those searching for new ways of thinking about these interdisciplinary problems.
The Corporation
This book traces the corporate path to power, exploring whether corporations will become superpowers or, like dinosaurs, give way to superior forms. It examines the rise of American corporations and considers how new technologies from bitcoin to AI will shape the future.
This book argues that the omnipotence of algorithms in marketing is not what it seems. Programmatic marketing can be improved, but first we must understand the strategic and cultural boundaries of Big Data, which repeats mistakes marketing has already overcome once.
This book explores strategic management with a focus on innovative business models and the new economy. It covers the principles of the sharing, circular, and networked economies for academics, students, and business practitioners seeking to transform their organisations.
Development Engineering
This research-backed guide shows innovators how to develop technological interventions for low-resource settings. Learn to create sustainable solutions that meet a real need, are affordable, and fit the cultural context to avoid common failures and achieve widespread use.